What CPU would you reccomend for this LGA 2011-3 build?

[Jason Burge]

Here is my parts list. I am building a PC that can run DDR4 memory and going to use it for gaming and 3D modeling/rendering on 3Ds max and Blender.

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/2qTtZL

What CPU would you recommend that would be the most optimal for what I need?

 

[Supernova1138]

Depends on how much money you've got. The 5820k is the best value option, with it's only real drawback being a low number of PCI-E lanes, but that really only becomes a problem if you want to do something like 3 way SLI. The 5930k is pretty similar to the 5820k and the only big difference is more PCI-E lanes. The 5960x is the best CPU available for that platform, and the most expensive, it gets 2 additional cores compared to the other two CPUs available giving you a total of 8 cores and 16 threads. It would be the best performer for rendering (slightly weaker for gaming due to lower stock clock speeds) but costs twice as much as the 5820k.

 

[Ximerous]

These are all 6 core possessors with 12 threads. The i7-5820K(28 Lanes, 3.3Ghz, 380$) or i7-5930K(40 Lanes, 3.5Ghz, 580$). If you want a Xeon for ECC Memory - Xeon E5-1650(40 Lanes, 3.5Ghz, 590$)

If you want a beastly 8 core/16 threads - i7-5960X(40 Lanes, 3.0Ghz, 1050$)

All prices are off newegg. Also I put links in via item name.

 

[utroz]

It really depends on how much money you have to spend on a cpu.. You could get an 18 core(36 thread) Xeon if you had the money to spend and it might be 2.5-3x faster than a i7-5820K depending on the workload. Lucky for you the X99 chipset does support both i7 and Xeon LGA 2011v3 cpu's as long as your motherboard has the microcode in its BIOS(EUFI nowadays)..

 

[Jason Burge]

These are all 6 core possessors with 12 threads. The i7-5820K(28 Lanes, 3.3Ghz, 380$) or i7-5930K(40 Lanes, 3.5Ghz, 580$). If you want a Xeon for ECC Memory - Xeon E5-1650(40 Lanes, 3.5Ghz, 590$)

If you want a beastly 8 core/16 threads - i7-5960X(40 Lanes, 3.0Ghz, 1050$)

All prices are off newegg. Also I put links in via item name.

Which one of those is the best for what I want though? Which is the fastest? Which one will give me the most FPS in 4k gaming and the best rendering in Blender/3Ds max? All of those are within what I would spend for one.

 

[utroz]

Your best bet and bang for buck would be the i7-5820K then.. You can always overclock it some if you wanted to or just run it stock. If you go over 6 cores then the core speeds tend to go down (even with turbo boost) and the cost goes up dramatically.

 

[Jason Burge]

Depends on how much money you've got. The 5820k is the best value option, with it's only real drawback being a low number of PCI-E lanes, but that really only becomes a problem if you want to do something like 3 way SLI. The 5930k is pretty similar to the 5820k and the only big difference is more PCI-E lanes. The 5960x is the best CPU available for that platform, and the most expensive, it gets 2 additional cores compared to the other two CPUs available giving you a total of 8 cores and 16 threads. It would be the best performer for rendering (slightly weaker for gaming due to lower stock clock speeds) but costs twice as much as the 5820k.

What are PCI-E lanes?

 

[utroz]

PCI-E lanes are what allows you to connect to more expansion devices like more graphics cards, RAID cards, NICs, and the list goes on. As long as you are not going to add a bunch of video cards and other cards then the 5820K is fine.. You would need to have 3 or more bandwidth hogging cards to bottleneck the 5820K's 28 lanes of PCI-E 3.0 and see a difference VS the 40 lanes on the higher end 5960x or 5930k cpus.

 

[Jason Burge]

PCI-E lanes are what allows you to connect to more expansion devices like more graphics cards, RAID cards, NICs, and the list goes on. As long as you are not going to add a bunch of video cards and other cards then the 5820K is fine.. You would need to have 3 or more bandwidth hogging cards to bottleneck the 5820K's 28 lanes of PCI-E 3.0 and see a difference VS the 40 lanes on the higher end 5960x or 5930k cpus.

Yes I see what you mean. But also what is bottleneck mean? Does that mean that when you have more powerful hardware than your CPU can handle then it will slow down the CPU I guess?

 

[utroz]

A bottleneck in this situation would be the PCI-E device being limited in its performance by the bandwidth of the PCI-E slot it is in. Since the 5820K only has 28 PCI-E lanes when you use a bunch of cards the slots will split the available PCI-E lanes so your PCI-E 3.0 x16 slot will have to give up lanes for the other slots. (it is more complicated than that but that is basically what will happen) So the cards would not be able to get enough data to keep up with them (depends greatly on what card it is)